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sweetcorn
sharon8
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in Fruit & veg
I have got some lovely big sweetcorn plants that are just coming into flower but there are no cobs to fertilize. Anyone got any idea what the problem could be?
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Give it several really good soakings - even last summer on our free-draining loam our sweetcorn needed quite a bit of watering in order to produce cobs. I put the sprinkler on for 30 mins at a time several times a week.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My sweetcorn was very annoying this year. Despite plenty of watering, the cobs arrived late, a lot of the pollen had already dispersed, so I ended up with quite a few only partly-pollinated cobs. Bah! Delicious, though.
I'm sure the female flowers are there, but you haven't looked closely enough further down the stem. They are not very obvious.
Thank you everyone, I will look for cobs and also give much more water. We did have that dry spell earlier in the year and they are in a raised bed this year, which is much more free draining.